NEW YORK – Fluidigm this week announced that the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in India has licensed importation and sale of its Advanta Dx SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Assay, one of the first saliva-based tests to be licensed for COVID-19 testing in India. The license granted to Premas Life Sciences, a Delhi-based life sciences distribution company, enables use of the test in laboratories approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research or a relevant state or central government.